Jesper Svartvik
Jesper Svartvik is a biblical scholar who taught in Jerusalem for a decade. He is currently a visiting professor in Jewish-Christian relations at Boston College.
He yearns to be able to lay his case before God.
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.
The purpose of the word of God is not to make us feel condemnable, but to help us see what is commendable.